Improvement in coach-pads



77 zfizappiep 15221671137" N.PETERS. PHOTO-LITNOGRAF;HER, WASHINGTON, D Cv UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES F. BEST, OF GALVA, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN COACH-PADS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 75,911, dated April 11, 1876 application filed January 4, 1876.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES F. BEST, of Galva, in the county of Henry and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Coach-Pads, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specilication, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

, My invention relates to improvements in coachpads; and consists in the employment of an arched bridge or tree, in connection with a continuous housing provided with adjusting-pads, whereby the motion of the self-adjnsting pads is limited, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, or represents an arched bridge or tree, constructed in the usual manner, and provided with terrets, connecting it with the saddle in the usual way. 1) indicates a housing, made continuous to limit the motion of the self-adjusting pads c 0, applied to the lower face thereof. The letters 1' are the rocking terret-nuts, each provided ,with the ordinary coach-pad of this class,

causing injury to the horses back.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with a coach-pad provided with the arched bridge a and adjusting-pads 0, as described, a continuous housing, as and for the purpose set forth.

JAMES F. BEST. I Witnesses:

LLOYD JOHNSON,

JAMES K. WEIR. 

